Posted on 04/30/2015 11:39:28 AM PDT by C19fan
For months now, former Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota has been working on what many inside the sport say is a massive change to his game. After winning the Heisman Trophy while piloting Oregon’s famous no-huddle, quick-strike offense that left college defenses gasping for air, Mariota is learning to huddle.
“That seems like a little detail but that is kind of a big thing,” Mariota said during the NFL draft process.
He has been given a mock play-call sheet and is calling plays in training in an effort to placate NFL teams who want to see him operate a more traditional offense.
This is one of many tweaks that college players are asked to make, but it can be a very bad thing. No one is telling Martin Scorsese to direct an episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” and no one should ask Mariota to huddle.
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It’s all about winning games.
If an NFL team can win with that kind of offense then it will use that kind of offense. Run QBs in and out like running backs — and they’re careers will be just as short.
If had the chance to make the bucks of an NFL QB, I’m pretty sure I could adapt.
Why don’t they require the defenses to be slower so they can run the option in the NFL?
Author must have missed the Ohio State game.
It was Oregons defense that couldn't catch their breaths.
You do see the pro game changing by speeding up the offense but it takes a special quarterback to do it and, even in the no huddle hurry up, the QB still has to be able to read defenses.
Nobody really expects the QB to run very much but in the schemes that do, it's usually because the QB has some limitations in their reading defenses and passing ability. Kapernick and Newton run a fare amount but I don't think either is a particularly good passer.
And we've seen what happens when a guy like RG3 has to run.
I like Mariota and think he’s a hell of an athlete and probably a hell of a person. I do not see a fit in the NFL. He’s either going to completely transform or get beat down dramatically. He’s a smart guy, so hopefully he gets a team with a decent line and good development system to make it work. I watched his college games and didn’t see a parallel to anything that works int he NFL. Comparisons to Russell Wilson don’t see to work. Wilson has an arm and can scramble safely when needed.
If he cannot play the way the teams are designed to play, then he would be unemployable to the NFL
Exactly, which is why Tebow will never be an NFL QB.
That remains to be seen, he has been working “full time” for a couple years now to fix his game, I am sure they will give him a chance.
It’s easier to design around quarterbacks when you have a whole crop of free talent coming in every year. A football team that has invested a lot of time, effort, and most of all money in creating an offensive line and an offensive backfield and receiver corps will not want to throw that out and start from scratch to suit a new quarterback.
Won’t need to learn to huddle if the Eagles pick him up.
Thank Goodness the Viqueens have a Bridgewater to the future already. I wouldn’t want to ponder anyone else at this point.
Good luck to him, but I think he would be better suited to change position to TE or FB. Tebow was a great college QB, but he was a terrible NFL QB.
Exactly, which is why Tebow will never be an NFL QB.
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He’s already been an NFL QB, and technically, he is one right now.
The apt metaphor for the NFL in regards to college QBs would be you wouldn’t ask the director of “The Bing Bang Theory”, who ever he is, to direct “Goodfellas”
I will re-phrase. Tebow will never be a long term successful NFL QB.
how is Colt McCoy doing?
“I like Mariota and think he’s a hell of an athlete and probably a hell of a person. I do not see a fit in the NFL.”
Let him carry a clipboard and learn for a couple of years and he will be fine.
Crossing our fingers in Philly. #Do the deal
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